After starting the demo using ant demo.start and trying to login to any of the web applications (activiti-explorer, activiti-probe, activiti-cycle), I get the following error in catalina.out. What's missing there?
Thanks,
Hany Mesha
SEVERE: An exception occurred while attempting authentication handshake for endpoint: http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service org.springframework.extensions.surf.exception.AuthenticationException: Unable to login:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>404 Not found</TITLE> </HEAD><BODY><H1>Not found</H1> The requested URL /activiti-rest/service/login was not found on this server</BODY></HTML>
at org.activiti.surf.ActivitiRESTAuthenticator.authenticate(ActivitiRESTAuthenticator.java:101) at org.springframework.extensions.webscripts.connector.AuthenticatingConnector.handshake(AuthenticatingConnector.java:403) at org.activiti.surf.ActivitiUserFactory.authenticate(ActivitiUserFactory.java:137) at org.springframework.extensions.surf.mvc.LoginController.handleRequestInternal(LoginController.java:67) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.AbstractController.handleRequest(AbstractController.java:153) at org.springframework.web.servlet.mvc.SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.handle(SimpleControllerHandlerAdapter.java:48) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doDispatch(DispatcherServlet.java:771) at org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet.doService(DispatcherServlet.java:716) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.processRequest(FrameworkServlet.java:647) at org.springframework.web.servlet.FrameworkServlet.doPost(FrameworkServlet.java:563) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatcher.java:646) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(ApplicationDispatcher.java:436) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:374) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispatcher.java:302) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.NormalRewrittenUrl.doRewrite(NormalRewrittenUrl.java:195) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.handleRewrite(RuleChain.java:159) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.RuleChain.doRules(RuleChain.java:141) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriter.processRequest(UrlRewriter.java:90) at org.tuckey.web.filters.urlrewrite.UrlRewriteFilter.doFilter(UrlRewriteFilter.java:417) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:857) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
I was having a similar issue and it was due to CATALINA_HOME being set incorrectly in my environment variables (to a different tomcat install on my machine and not the one under the activiti/apps folder).